Promotional Post: What He Wants by Kate Aaron #Excerpt #Giveaway

Christo's life fell
apart when his partner of eight years walked out on him. There wasn't
even a reason for it. Sometimes love just fades, as quickly and
mysteriously as it appears in the first place.

Enter Damien. Damien's
the guy with a different man on his arm for every event. He's smooth and
arrogant and always impeccably turned out. Christo hates him. But God,
he's gorgeous. Damien could be exactly what Christo needs to get him
over John.

It's only going to be a
fling. Nothing serious, nothing that will affect their working
relationship or the rest of their lives. So why are they fighting
through the night rather than letting go and walking away? Why does
Damien's secretive nature bug Christo
so much? And why does he even care that Damien might not be as tough as
he pretends to be?

Book Introduction

What He Wants was
my first breakout title. Published in April 2012, it spent its first
six months on the LGBT bestseller lists of five of the (then) six Kindle
stores. It was the #1 LGBT book on Amazon domains in the US, UK,
France, Germany, and Italy,
as well as topping the LGBT chart on iTunes in the US, UK, Canada,
Australia, and Germany. During a promotion in February 2014 it made it
as high as #253 in the entire Amazon.com Kindle store—not too shabby for
a two-year-old book!

Its success was completely
unprecedented, and giddy still does not begin to describe how I feel
about this title. While it wasn't my first published work, it was the
one that showed me I could make a living from writing.

Five years on, I've given
it a complete clean-up, deleted some 8,000 words and rewritten about an
additional 10,000. It's been a labour of love, and I hope readers old
and new enjoy reading it as much as I've enjoyed working on it.

It's rolling out to
B&N and iTunes this week. People who've already purchased it will be
able to download the second edition from that retailer. If anyone
bought a copy from ARe or any other defunct site, if they send the author proof
of purchase she'll send them the
second edition. They need to email author@kateaaron.com

Excerpt

“Shall we call it a day?” Damien
asked in the middle of the last morning.

Christo glanced around the room
at the thin crowds. The expo was all but finished, he knew. “Let’s give it
another hour,” he suggested. “Instead of coming back after lunch we’ll pack
up.”

“Sounds good to me.”

When they were done, Christo
followed Damien, who drove to a small pub. While Christo leafed through
paperwork, tallying up their take for the week, Damien took care of ordering
their meals at the bar.

“Do you know how much we made?”
Christo asked, astonished, when Damien returned with their drinks.

“Maybe the recession is over?”

“I’ll drink to that.”

They clinked their glasses.

“Put that away,” Damien said as Christo
picked up the documents again. “We’ve worked hard enough this week.”

“Maybe you’re right.” He tucked
the papers back into his briefcase.

Their eyes met over the table.
Christo shifted in his seat. This was the first time they’d been alone together
without a pile of work to do since the morning after the night before. He
cleared his throat.

“Are we ever going to talk?”

Christo looked up sharply.
“What’s there to talk about?”

“You ran out on me.” Damien’s
eyes flashed.

“Yeah, sorry about that.”

“Look if you’re not interested
that’s fine. You’ve just come out of a big relationship. I get it. If it was a
one-off thing then tell me.”

“I, I don’t know,” Christo
stammered. How was he supposed to tell Damien he was frightened of getting hurt
again? What was it Guy said: He’s only
going to fuck you and ditch you. Was that true?

“What do you want, Christo?”

God, just the way Damien said his
name made his loins shiver. What did he want? He wanted Damien. He wanted mad,
hot, passionate sex. But he wanted other things as well. Loyalty, security,
stability. Love.

“Stop analysing it,” Damien
drawled. “I’m doing all the work here. Just tell me what you want.”

Still Christo dithered.

“Shall I guess what you want?”
Damien didn’t wait for an answer. “You want me to take you back to the hotel,
book us a room, take you to bed, and fuck you. You want us to shower together
and eat food off each other’s bodies and you want me to suck your cock until
you come in my mouth.”

Christo made an embarrassed,
outraged noise.

“You didn’t let me finish,”
Damien scolded. “Afterwards, you want to fall asleep in my arms, and in the
morning you want me to still be there. Am I right?”

Oh god, yes. Christo nodded quickly,
unable to speak. If his cock got any harder it’d jump into Damien’s arms of its
own accord.